Vietnamese seek Agent Orange justice

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Living hell of the deadly cocktail from the heavens

As Vietnamese continue to be born with Agent Orange defects stemming
from the Vietnam War, their families are seeking justice in the US
courts. 

By Mark Baker.
The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
May 15, 2004

Pham Thi Thuy Linh is ready for school. Her uniform is a smart blue
dress and white embroidered blouse. But the pretty 10-year-old needs
help with her shoes and to get the satchel over her shoulder.

Linh has no arms. She writes with a ballpoint pen clutched dexterously
between her toes and draws vivid pictures with crayons held the same way.

Her grandfather, who died of leukaemia in the late 1980s, was a pilot
who flew with United States forces spraying Agent Orange and the rainbow
cocktail of other defoliants dumped across the country during the
Vietnam War. The chemicals stripped the forests and grasslands that gave
sanctuary to the communist insurgents and destroyed what the Pentagon
liked to describe as "unfriendly" crops - the food sources of their
enemies, which also happened to be the food sources of the civilian population.

Both Linh's uncles were born before the war and have healthy families.
But Linh's father was born in 1965, at the height of the spraying.
Doctors now count her among more than a million Vietnamese killed or
disabled by the lethal dioxins contained in the herbicides, poisons that
have passed, through genetic mutations, to later generations.

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for the entire story
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289877622.html#

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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